tv's and monitors

I stripped out 6 TV's and 4 monitors this weekend. I have no idea what to do with the tubes. I've read the glass has lead in it but scrap yards don't want them. Can you make money off them? The last thing I wana do is send them to the landfill. Any input would be great! Thanks!

Check with your local Goodwill. I just took in 10 of them yesterday with no problems.

Really they take just the glass tubes?

Hmmm my dumb ass broke the glass when I took the yoke off. Then I dumped the plastic in the trash and broke it with a sledgehammer

Now I'm stuck with tubes lol oops

Originally Posted by Mick

TV tubes are different. My post above is for computer monitors.

any idea why tv tubes are different ?

Personally I think dell harvests them as well. From experience I've noticed that monitors have more goodies in them with the exception of new TVs. The TVs that I've taken to goodwill have been in pieces. I don't think they can tell if its a TV or monitor if its shattered glass.

Just set it out for garbage day i know u live in one of the most up tight citys in the state but its still worth a try. Its still FL most our trash is getting burnt these days lol.

Bestbuy.

I drove up and specifically asked the guy at the donation door if they took TVs and monitors that I had stripped the copper out of. He answered yes and said that was about all those old ones were good for. I asked again, somewhat incredulously, "You'll take the ones I've opened and taken the copper out of and put back together?" and he said yep, it's better than putting them in the trash.

I also asked if I could buy the dead computers people drop off there. He said nope - we send those to our Computer Works store. Kinda sucks being around Austin - too many tech savvy people around. BTW, I went to the Computer Works store. It's beside the Computer Museum. I doubt there's much they scrap - they had walls full of PCI cards, HDDs, floppy drives, optical drives, whole computers, motherboards, etc.

i bought my first computer from goodwill, took it back after awhile, but that's when i started working on them. I turned it on, looked at it, and said "what good is this?" I went by there and asked them that question, they said well, you can listen to music on it, but you'll need a cd-rom, so i got one of those, then i had to get a soundcard too, then i listened to a cd and thought "this is kind of an expensive cd player!" Then i talked to them again and they said, "welll, you can get on the internet, "if" you get a modem" lol, so, i'm eventually looking at the internet and asking myself "what good is this?" Then i saw the "meet people, chat" That was kind of fun, Ohwell! In the meantime the hard drive had got full, wouldn't hold any more, so i took all my stuff out of it and took it back, told them i needed a little stronger computer.

I just scrapped my first monitor today, them things are a pitb! 5 thousand screws, but lotsa goodies, and it was only a 13" one, wondering what the 21" are gonna look like. The TVs were easy compared to these!

Since our Gov decided that the lead in them makes them a Hazardous Material, you have to be careful about where you put them. A couple companies here in NC got in big trouble with the EPA for exporting HazMat(CRTs) without proper licences not to long ago. Now the only companies that I have heard of that will buy them around me have special furnaces that slowly heat them and somehow separate the lead from the glass.Was only 2 within about 500 miles and both would only buy in BULK.They also had 4 or 5 different grades of the glass depending on the average lead content of the glass.If I remember correctly top grade was over 50% lead.

There are other companies that cut the glass and separate it somehow, but none were anywhere near me.

Bear if you dont like those monitors send them my way.I am not a pro but,Ive already done a little over a hundred this week.My favorite are the Dells. Only 10 screws and they pretty much fall apart.First 4 pulls off the back,next 2 from the clamps on the yolk,pull everything out,the last 4 screws separate the glass from front plastic.I did a monster(was made in Germany not a dell) last night.It was about a 21 inch,but had the beefiest AL box built around the tube and boards.The most shielding I have ever seen in any thing.I had to remove enough screws to build the Keystone Pipeline,but I got well over 6lb(gotta bring my scale and weigh it )of AL from this beast.I will do those all night.